In article <Xns### [at] povrayorg> , ingo <ing### [at] tagpovrayorg>
wrote:

> How about microthreading?

Well, what is presented in the paper sounds very much like a variant of the
*T machine developed at MIT in the early 1990s and as implemented in the
88110MP (they called what they created microthreads as well).  The catch is
that like all fine grain threading architectures it requires hardware
support because the "problem" creating fine grain threads without hardware
switching support is that the required frequent context switching will eat
all of the possible performance gain.

    Thorsten


* Sadly, the project was completed in the pre-WWW days and thus not much can
be found online these days...
<http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Motorola_88000>


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